8/14/2013 Lughnasa Honey Moon
Cool weather. Presents an interesting problem. Honey has to have less than 18% water content to qualify as honey. To measure this a refractometer is necessary. I bought one. It needs calibration; but, there’s a hitch today, the temperature. The temperature has to be 68 degrees. Won’t hit that until 11:00 am according to my weather websites. I want to check the honey at 10. On August 14th this is an issue?
I’m picking plums this morning, then I’ll do the refractometer test of the honey, after which I will, again, remove all six honey supers, remove the hopguard strips I placed last week and replace them with new ones. My plan is better this week. I have a desire to avoid the hassle of last week’s battle with an angry superorganism. Aversive conditioning really does work.
Check you after it’s all over.
